Relative frequencies of “Figure” vs “figure” in both versions of the Google Books corpus for both English (all) and English Fiction.

<p>In the English data sets, the capitalized term rapidly surpasses the uncapitalized term in the 1960s. For the first English Fiction data set, this effect is delayed until the 1970s. As shown later, only the second version of the English Fiction data set demonstrates a filtering of scientific terminology. These trends strongly suggest an increase starting around 1900 in the sampling of scientific texts in both English data sets and the first English Fiction data set.